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A recent Nintendo Direct Mini talked about a new free app coming to the Nintendo 3DS. Flipnote Studio 3D is basically Swapnote but it does animations. The app existed on DSi, but the 3D version is coming out this Summer.

You'll be able to share your creations through 2 services. Flipnote Gallery: Friends and Flipnote Gallery: World. Friends will obviously allow you to send your creations between your 3DS friends. World will allow you to share with the rest of the world, however it's a monthly-subscription service (first 30 days free). However, if you're good enough (ie. get lots of high user ratings) you can get months paid for you. Lastly, there will be days throughout the year where it will be free for everyone, probably around holidays or something.

Now for the kinda cool part. You'll be able to make your Flipnotes into animated .gif files as well as .avi files. This means you could upload these to both photo-sharing sites as well as YouTube. Kinda cool, and a good way to get around the subscription fee.

So that's about it. Any thoughts? As mentioned at the beginning, the app is completely free. The only fees are if you wanna utilize the online World sharing feature.